Page 1 of Dvd on my pc not there anymore!!! help.

i recently had to reboot my pc as i had a worm virus and was told the only way to get rid was to do a reboot which i did but that was last year in november and have recently moved house so my pc is all i can watch my dvds on at the moment but i placed a disc in and message was that it was unable to play disc i searched for my dvd player and could not find it anywhere have i lost it forever or do i need a disc to install my dvd back on to the pc any help would be appreciated.

shouldnt need an install disc. Shut the machine down and reseat the cables to the DVD drive. Should be a power cable and a data riboon cable. When your computer boots there may be a screen with Bios info and other stuff on it. Is the drive listed at all? You can also go into the control panel in windows, go into "system" and under " device manager" see if the drive is listed, normally at the top of the list.

Craig

Are you talking about the DVD Player (i.e. software to play the DVD`s) or the DVD drive itself - hardware. If you can still see the drive as D: (or whatever) under `My Computer` then there is no problem with the drive. If it is a DVD Software player you are looking for , whatever you had may have been uninstalled sometime. If you don`t have the original disk , I think there are some free ones to be had somewhere around the net (not exactly sure where tho). If this is the problem , do a search on Freeware /Shareware and look for DVD players. If it is the former , then ignore what I said and just look at the post above !!
Just another quick point , you say that you get the message cannot play disc - its not a Region Coding problem is it ?

This item was edited on Tuesday, 22nd January 2002, 19:38

You could try looking at www.tucows.com for a software download. They have free/sharewares of pretty much everything you will ever need.

have looked in systems and there was my cdrom with a plus next to it i clicked that and it said mashita dvdrom sr-8583 so it is there but do not know how to get to it . also when i put a dvd in it brings up a interactual player when i click on play it says no dvd and no it is not that i am playing the wrong region . i was operating a power dvd before and it was found in my program files but cannot be found anywhere . more help please.!!!!!!

Seems like a strange problem you have there Craig. Does the drive function correctly for CD`s - i.e. can you load a CD ROM or play an audio CD without any bother- is the problem just with DVD ?

cd rom functions normal ie . i can play cds and games etc but no dvd i am stuck .

still stuck .

I had the exact same problem on my laptop last week. I ended up trying to restart the pc to see if that would work. When the menu opens and says no dvd right clik on the program and there should be a properties option. If you click on that you will usually get a screen where you can choose which discs to run. When I did it I had to select a region for my laptop ( none were selected ) then just click apply and autostart and it worked ok.

This problem arose when I installed RegionKiller on my Toshiba laptop then tried to uninstall it.

Tell me if thats any use to ya!

buy a dvd player ....... problem sorted computers are a tool of the devil !!!,